Black Friday

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall…

following Friday is the day known as Black Friday. This day is where all the giving of thanks is thrown into the trash and replaced with two middle aged women fighting over the last toaster that’s half-off regular price in Wal-Mart. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year which comes immediately after thanksgiving, where people fight over mediocre deals not long after giving thanks to everything in their lives. What would Thoreau say? As a consequence of Black Friday people…

The song Friday by Rebecca Black is one of the most questionable “songs” in regards to expressive content. It is considered to be one of the worst songs ever. Talk about rough! Yet this song is considered a genuine song, and by definition it is music. Granted it has vocals…

in New York, and Black Friday. The Reconstruction was a period from 1865-1877, after the Civil War, in which the federal government prepared for the Southern states to come back to the Union. The Reconstruction was a time where the nation, as a whole, needed new ways of labor to rebuild its economy after the Civil War. As the new economy was building, it opened many opportunities for manipulation and scandals. The Crédit Mobilier Scandal, the Tweed Ring in New York, and Black Friday were three…

November 14, 2016 1614788 Black Friday “Black Friday” is a day when everything is on sale. According to blackfriday.com I discovered that the expression Black Friday “was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season” blackfriday.com. Black Friday refers to “stores moving from the red to the black” back in the past when accounting records were kept by hand, the red ink indicated a loss, and black ink indicated a profit. Black Friday originally occurred during the…

GameStop has decided that it is in their and their employee's best interest if they shut down all of their stores around the globe on November 26th, Thanksgiving. Considering that the next day is Black Friday, this decision makes perfect sense. WHY GAMESTOP DECIDED TO CLOSE ON THANKSGIVING GameStop is one of the most well known and successful gaming stores in the world so why would they close down a day and lose sales? Well, the answer, according to GameStop, is as simple as giving their…

regarded as Black Friday. In the news are reports and stories about people who sleep outside at different Walmart locations in order to have a place in front of the line for a chance of getting a good deal on merchandise advertised and sold at Walmart stores. Some people take delight in the Black Friday experience. Getting up early or standing in line to get a good bargain to fulfill their Christmas wish list. With the large number of shoppers expected to turn out at this year’s Black Friday…

Staples an-nounced that it would start its in-store Black Friday 2015 sales at 6am on Black Friday. Now, GameStop has followed with its own announcement: GameStop stores will be closed on Thanksgiv-ing Day and will open at 5am on Black Friday. Reasons for the Switch GameStop has said that they made the time switch because the company wants to protect family time for customers and employees on Thanksgiving Day. In previous years, as Black Friday store openings slowly crept into Thanksgiving…

[andreabyline] With Black Friday quickly approaching some people have already mapped out their shopping battle plan, and packed their tents to camp out in front of stores days in advanced. For those of us who still enjoy a nice Thanksgiving celebration with friends and family, waiting for days on end just to save a couple hundred dollars is not exactly ideal. The best way to find great holiday deals while still being able to enjoy the actual holiday is to take advantage of Cyber Monday deals. In…

Americans are well known for buying too many items. Some of them excessively spend money on expensive items, such as cars and televisions, to show off their high status among their peers. Black Friday is a special day where people around the world violently flood the retail stores for high discounts in preparation for the winter holidays. Stampedes kill hundreds of people and injure thousands over trivial products such as toilet paper. In 2008, the Great Recession hit many Americans, and they…